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Verisimilitude vs Similitude - What's the difference?

verisimilitude | similitude |

As nouns the difference between verisimilitude and similitude

is that verisimilitude is the property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism while similitude is similarity or resemblance to something else.

verisimilitude

English

(wikipedia verisimilitude)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality, realism.
  • A statement which merely appears to be true.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "verisimilitude")

    Related terms

    * verisimilitudinous * verisimilar * verisimilarity

    See also

    * probability

    External links

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    similitude

    English

    (wikipedia similitude)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Similarity or resemblance to something else.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '''Aemulation''' was '     similitude     within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) A way in which two people or things share similitude.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes'''''': the theatre ''of'' life, the mirror ''of'' nature. […]
    '     Aemulation     was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
  • (countable) Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
  • * Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!
    • If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude , in the garden.
  • A parable or allegory.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:
    • And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes , sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].